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Article: BAM's Next Wave Fest opens with Radical Graham. (Brooklyn Academy of Music's 1994 Next Wave Festival to include early dance works of Martha Graham)
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- Dance Magazine
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- September 1, 1994
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NEW YORK CITY--Brooklyn Academy of Music's 1994 Next Wave Festival, which includes a generous helping of dance events, will open with a ten-day engagement by Martha Graham Dance Company focusing on pivotal early Graham works and their influence, and celebrating the centennial of the choreographer's birth.
Radical Graham (which runs from September 28 to October 9) represents a departure for the Next Wave Festival, which usually introduces new, often commissioned work. According to BAM president and executive director Harvey Lichtenstein, however, Radical Graham fits in. "Artistically, so much of what has happened in the later part of the twentieth century has been ...